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Monday, March 27, 2006

A lesson for us all













Tonight’s South Park episode is entirely about a religion again. Not sure if SBS has planned this since they showed that scientology episode only 2 weeks ago and those episodes were not belong to same season. Anyway, this episode was about the only true religion, Mormonism.

All About Mormons starts with a Mormon kid named Gary moves to South Park and it’s up to Stan to kick his ass. But when Stan and his dad meet their new Mormon neighbours, they become fascinated with him genuinely nice they are. While the other boys mock Stan relentlessly for hanging out with Gary, Randy forces the rest of his family to become Mormon. Throughout the episode is the story of Joseph Smith and the Book of Mormon recreated in a south-park-style musical form.
For most of the verses, every alternate line is "dum dum dum dum dummm" until the verse about Martin Harris’ wife Lucy, the only person to question Smith’s incredible prophecies, Lucy is referred to as "smart smart smart smart smart," revealing that the previous verses actually contained the line, "dumb dumb dumb dumb dumb," referring to Smith, Martin Harris, and other followers..
After Stan hears the entire story, he launches into an incredulous rant at the Mormons about their ridiculous belief. This doesn't much upset anyone in the Mormon family, other than Gary, who confronts Stan the next day with a thought-provoking speech

Look, maybe us Mormons do believe in crazy stories that make absolutely no sense, and maybe Joseph Smith did make it all up, but I have a great life and a great family, and I have the Book of Mormon to thank for that. The truth is, I don't care if Joseph Smith made it all up, because what the church teaches now is loving your family, being nice and helping people. And even though people in this town might think that's stupid, I still choose to believe in it. All I ever did was try to be your friend, Stan, but you're so high and mighty you couldn't look past my religion and just be my friend back. You've got a lot of growing up to do, buddy. Suck my balls.”

Suck my balls. A tolerance lesson for us all.

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